Fix Your Slice with an On-Plane Shoulder Turn | Titleist Tips

Titleist staff member Jason Baile has a simple drill that you can use to see and feel the correct swing plane when you turn your shoulders in the backswing. From there, your downswing will be much more consistent and repeatable and you’ll see a big improvement in the quality of your shots.

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00:00 – Flat shoulder plane description
00:20 – Drawbacks of flat shoulder plane
00:47 – Description of correct shoulder plane
01:00 – Overview of closet pole drill
01:45 – Points of focus for drill backswing
02:00 – Points of focus for drill downswing

one of the biggest causes for slicers slicing the golf ball is what we call too flat of a shoulder plane that’s just when the shoulders start rotating back and as they rotate back there the player might be so interested in making a huge turn that they lose their posture flatten their shoulder plane since the ball’s back down there on the ground I’ve got two choices I can steepen my shoulders downward this way and throw the club out which causes the slice or I can duck up under it early extend by thrusting to try to get the golf club to come from the inside both of them are equally as wrong one’s more painful than the other the thrusting and right bending really hurts the lower back on the right side a lot of that can be cured in how you work the club away understanding your shoulder plane so a great shoulder plane would look something like this it would point just outside the golf ball with a middle iron or so a little steeper with a short iron and a little bit flatter with a wood one of my fav favorite ways of working on that went to the local hardware store and got about a 6ft closet Di and if I just take that 6ot closet Dow and I make it about the length of my seven iron with no head on it I get in a good setup with a plenty enough right bin get this thing worked right up my left hip and then on the way back I’m just going to trace the target line with this end of the Dow allowing it to work down my left thigh till it just touches the top of my kneecap when I get it just on the top of my knap it’s time to raise my arms and finish my Pivot that keeps my shoulders on a much steeper plane allowing me not to have to thrust to get to it or spin my upper body out and over the ball so as we’re working that back trace the target line until it touches the top of your left knee and once it hits there complete your turn Club will be nicely on plane and you’ll feel this steeper move with your should shoulders all I need to do from here is stay patient with my upper body and allow my arms to slot into the golf ball allowing my golf club to come from slightly inside the target line hitting awesomely crisp draws